Butcher v. West Virginia & P. R.
West Virginia Supreme Court
I. — Burden of proof as to signal. — 13 Ill. App. 535. II. — Duties of traveller and railway company at crossings generally. — 12 S. E. R. 532; 15 Am. St. Rep. 733 & note, p. 739; 11 Am. St. Rep. 486; 44 Am. & Eng. R. Cases 570; 8 Am. St. Rep. 809; 4 Am. & Eng. Ency. L. 70, 913; Deer. Neg. 252; 2 Beach Railways, 970; Patt. Ry. Ac. § 173 etseq.; 3 Law. R. R. & Pr. § 1189; 2 Wood’s R. L. 1301-1332. III. — Proximate cause of injury. — 12 S. E. R. 532; 4 Am. & Eng. Ency.
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I. — Burden of proof as to signal. — 13 Ill. App. 535. II. — Duties of traveller and railway company at crossings generally. — 12 S. E. R. 532; 15 Am. St. Rep. 733 & note, p. 739; 11 Am. St. Rep. 486; 44 Am. & Eng. R. Cases 570; 8 Am. St. Rep. 809; 4 Am. & Eng. Ency. L. 70, 913; Deer. Neg. 252; 2 Beach Railways, 970; Patt. Ry. Ac. § 173 etseq.; 3 Law. R. R. & Pr. § 1189; 2 Wood’s R. L. 1301-1332. III. — Proximate cause of injury. — 12 S. E. R. 532; 4 Am. & Eng. Ency. L. 70, 914, 921, note 7 ; Digest Vols. 1-35, Am. & Eng. R. Cases, p. 246, §§ 420-423; Patt. R. Ac. § 179; Deer. Neg. § 252; 3…
1Opinion of the Court
ENGLISH, Judge :
This was an action of trespass on the case, brought by Win, T. Butcher against the West Virginia & Pittsburgh Railroad Company in the Circuit Court of Lewis county to recover damages for an injury occasioned by a train of cars belonging to the defendant running against a wagon and team of three horses at “Dodson's Crossing” on the line of defendant’s road between the village of Jane Lew and town of Weston in said county. The plaintiff, at the time of the collision, was riding in the wagon, and a boy was riding the saddle horse in the team. The declaration contains the usual…
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